Intermediate-Task Training Impact on mT5 and XLM-R Inference Efficiency in Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Settings

Intermediate-task training---fine-tuning a pretrained model on an intermediate task before fine-tuning again on the target task---often improves model performance substantially on language understanding tasks in monolingual English settings. We investigate whether English intermediate-task training is still helpful on non-English target tasks. Using nine intermediate language-understanding tasks, we evaluate intermediate-task transfer in a zero-shot cross-lingual setting on the XTREME benchmark. We see large improvements from intermediate training on the BUCC and Tatoeba sentence retrieval tas

Research goal: How does the intermediate-task training of mT5 and XLM-R on 1M+ examples affect inference efficiency (latency, throughput) in zero-shot cross-lingual settings compared to models trained without intermediate tasks?

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